Aphorism Quotes

“What you choose also chooses you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The word is my weapon. FIRE!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“Be a man! Put on a mask!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“To-do list : to-do list!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“I give away examples!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I have forgotten my umbrella.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Please be my friend.”

— Kevin McPherson Eckhoff

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

— Mason Cooley

“I couldn't conquer my enemy. I married him,”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“Wonderful aphorism - but we can't take refuge in aphorisms.”

— Morton Feldman

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

— Jack Vance

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

— Winston Churchill

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

— Paul Eldridge

“Do as you please but please as you do”

— Cristian Daniel Letai

“The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.”

— W.M. Driscoll

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

— Karl Kraus

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender…

— Orson Scott Card

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism,…

— Sam Waterston

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are…

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from…

— Bill Vaughan

“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than…

— Howard Tayler

“Aphorisms should be peaks – and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the…

— Anonymous

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute…

— Anonymous

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain…

— Peter D. Mitchell

One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and…

— Margaret Visser

...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,…

— Pope Dionysius

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best aphorisms are… portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and…

— William Rounseville Alger